Mr Cooke, Mr Eyles, Mr Woodford, Mr Baylis and Mr Lyell are desired to attend the four members who serve in parliament for this City and
request that the club may have the perusal of the list of the commissioners
for the land tax, by them settled.

The Postmasters General [James, fourth Baron Cornwallis and James
Craggs senior] having given leave to the club to recommend two persons
out of each ward to be preferred to places in the General Post Office, the
following persons were nominated for that purpose: Aldgate Ward,
Philip Gage and Henry Smith, by Mr Eyles; Bassishaw, Henry Heath and
William Henshaw, by Col. Shorey; Billingsgate, Henry Amey and John
Gregory, by Mr James Fisher; Broad Street, Thomas Griffith and Andrew
Parry, by Mr Woodford; Cheap, Sampson Coleclough and Thomas
Raymond, by Mr Younge; (p. 38) Cornhill, Benjamin Whitebread and
Thomas Rawlins, by Mr Daye; Cripplegate Without, Andrew Vigners, by
Mr Cooke; Farringdon Within, Richard Littleton and Charles Pickering,
by Major Hatley; Langbourn, Thomas Petty, by Mr Eyles; Lime Street,
Thomas Mayley and Nathaniel Bishop, by Mr Bagshaw; Tower, John
Middleton and John Stevens, by Major Lechmere; Vintry, John Carey and
John Feilder, by Mr Cooper; Southwark, Edmund Harris, by Mr Eyles.

(p. 39) Mr Eyles, Mr Cooke and Mr Woodford are desired to attend the
Postmasters General with the recommendation of the aforesaid persons,
subscribed by all the members of the club now present.

A letter wrote by the members present to Mr Woodford about the
meeting of the club.

Received by the surplus of the reckoning: 1s. 6d.

51. (p. 41) Thursday, 16 June 1715. Present: Mr Fisher, Mr Younge.

[No minute]

52. Thursday, 23 June 1715. Present: Mr Daye.

Memorandum, to write to such members of the club who have recommended persons to be preferred in the General Post Office that they meet
at Garraway's Coffee House on Tuesday next between twelve and one to
go with Mr Woodford to Mr Craggs for that purpose. To send also to
Mr Woodford on Monday night to remind him of this, and the affair of
Cheap Ward.

Mr Craggs acquainted the club that he had received the list of persons
recommended by them to be preferred to places in the General Post
Office, and that when any vacancies happened those persons should be
taken care for.

Agreed, that the future meetings of this club be on the first Thursday in
every month and that all the members be then summoned to attend and
as often as anything extraordinary may happen.

Col. Shorey acquainted the club that this meeting was to desire the
members to give an account what houses there are in their respective wards
who entertain persons disaffected to the government and non-jurors, in
order to be searched by the officers of the Lieutenancy who are empowered
for that purpose.

This day Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Mr Craggs did the club the honour
to dine with them.

61. List of suspected persons in Tower Ward.

Capt. Nicholas Batchellor, Tower Street

Henry Burlace, ditto

Richard Fabian, ditto

John Winsted, Mincing Lane

John Bamber, surgeon, ditto

John Johnson, ditto

Sir Samuel Ongley, ditto

Joseph Pigott, ditto

William Overy, ditto

Henry Williams, ditto

George Smith, ditto

Sir Samuel Clarke, ditto

(p. 51) Benjamin Gascoign, St Dunstan's Hill

Thomas Loveday, Tower Street

Robert Evans, plumber, ditto

Edward Bridgen, Portugal merchant, ditto

Benjamin Boyden, coffeeman, ditto

John Elderton, pewterer, ditto

Christopher Smith, ditto

Dod Brereton, Idle Lane

Robert Lord, cooper, Cross Lane

James Bedingfeld, Thames Street

Charles Townley, ditto

James Wyke

Ralph Rawlings, ditto

Charles White, ditto

John Coleman, cooper, ditto query dead

Stephen Hudle, ditto

Robert Lekey, Tower Street

Martin Markland, ditto

Peter Bolton, ditto

(p. 52) Gostwick Cox, Tower Street

Thomas Brittle, ditto

Doctor Noy, Tower Hill

James Graves, ditto

Nicholas Hanbury, Seething Lane

John Davis, ditto

John Oliver, ditto

Samuel Nutt, ditto

Samuel Alcorne, ditto

John Lamb, ditto

Francis Hawkins, ditto

Charles Townley, Tower Hill

Samuel Percival, Muscovy Court

William Prescott, ditto

Robert Huckle, ditto

Sander Davis, Seething Lane

Mr Merrey, Mark Lane

Francis Vickers, ditto

Mr Sandiford, ditto

Stephen Bellaise, Hart Street

(p. 53) Edward Jasper, Hart Street

Charles Sergison esq., Navy Office

Dennis Lyddall esq., ditto

Henry Hyde, barber, Hart Street

Nicholas Williamson, Mark Lane

Nathaniel Lloyd, ditto

Joseph Taylor, ditto

Nathaniel Chamberlain, ditto

Edward Worgan, Tower Street

Richard Dart, ditto

62. Mr Woodford and Mr Lyell are desired to speak to Mr John Thompson
of Candlewick Ward and Mr Raper of Dowgate Ward that they will
become members of this club.

Mr Fisher is desired to speak to Mr Henry Neale of Bridge Ward that
he will also become one of the club. Sir Gilbert Heathcote is desired to
speak to Capt. Lewis that he will be one of the members for Holborn Side
of Farringdon Without. (p. 54) Col. Shorey is desired to speak to Mr
Henry Sherbrooke that he will be one of the members for Holborn Side of
Farringdon Without. Mr Warner and Mr Daye are desired to speak to Mr
Badcock that he will be one of the members for Fleet Street Side of
Farringdon Without.

Agreed, that every member of this club do make a collection in his ward
to carry on to trial the act of Common Council in 1692 about unfreemen,
in the affair of Tower Ward, and pay the same to Mr Cooke who is desired
to be treasurer, and he is to issue out the same as he thinks fit for the purpose aforesaid.

Received of Mr Woodford, Mr Baylis and Mr Fisher upon account of
the reckoning: £3 4s. 6d.

Memorandum, Mr Trench, though absent, promised to pay his proportion.

63. (p. 55) A list of the several wards, with the divisions and precincts in
each ward.

This day the club was especially summoned by the order of Mr Woodford to consider of recommending three persons to be admitted to be
letter carriers in the General Post Office.

Received of Mr Gabriel Smythe his proportion of the charge of the
dinner on 25 August: 16s. 6d.

Cordwainer Ward: Mr Trench recommends to be admitted to be letter
carriers in the General Post Office the following persons, Thomas Gyde, a
coffeeman in Bow Lane, and John Mathers.

Agreed, that Benjamin Whitebread of Cornhill Ward shall have the
precedency of persons recommended for the General Post Office.

(p. 76) The several other wards being elected by way of ballot came up
according to the following order: (1) Lime Street, (2) Tower, (3) Vintry,
(4) Billingsgate, (5) Bassishaw, (6) Aldgate, (7) Cordwainer, (8) Cheap,
(9) Langbourn, (10) Farringdon Within, (11) Broad Street, (12) Cripplegate. And ordered, that the persons nominated for the said wards be recommended according to the above mentioned order.

(p. 77) To the Right Honourable the Lord Cornwallis and James
Craggs esq., Postmaster[s] General.

We whose names are hereunder written are of opinion that Benjamin
Whitebread, Thomas Mayley and John Middleton are persons fit to be
letter carriers for the Post Office. And as such we recommend them to
Your Honours, hereby certifying that the persons recommended are
honest, zealously affected for His Majesty King George, and citizens and
freemen of London.

The absent members of the club are desired to bring to the next meeting
a list of such persons who will stand for Common Councilmen in their
wards.

Agreed, that the validity of the act of Common Council about unfreemen's votes be tried after St Thomas's Day next.

(p. 82) Expedients to be used in the election of Common Councilmen:
the Office of Ordnance (to be spoke to), the Navy, the Excise, the Custom
House, the Victualling, the Bank, the East India Company, swearing the
wards, an association, the unfreemen's votes to be supported, the Post
Office, the Pay Office, list of artificers to the Court, Lord Mayor's influence
[upon] alehouse keepers.

Aldersgate Ward: Mr Gouge and Mr Hole may be chosen Common
Councilmen if Mr Cartlitch and Capt. Smith will join their interest with
them, and Capt. Garrard to speak to his father.

Castle Baynard Ward: there are now two good, and the representatives
hope to elect four more good.

Billingsgate Ward: they are not yet settled in their candidates.

Bridge Ward: they meet this night to consider of candidates to be put up.

Farringdon Within: have agreed upon most of their candidates.

Farringdon Without: to be allowed [blank].

(p. 110) Committee to issue money: Mr Thompson, Mr Daye, Mr Raper,
Major Hatley, Mr Baskett, Mr Fisher, Major Lechmere, or three, to draw
warrants upon D[avid] L[e] G[ros] for such sums as they shall think proper
for the service of the several wards. And to be summoned to meet next
Thursday at five.

Paid the reckoning by order of Mr Craggs: £1 3s. 6d.

Received of Mr Craggs to be paid as a quorum of the above named
committee shall direct: £500.